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What is a comfortable temperature for bath water?

Is the body temperature of a fish the same as the temperature of the surrounding water?

Why do scientists prefer the metric system to the U.S. conventional system?

Why has the American public resisted the adoption of the metric system?

Why is the so-called “normal” body temperature of 98.6° F reported to the tenth of a degree?

 

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